Printing in remote desktop session

[Guest]

I have remote desktop running on my local machine and someone connecting from
the net and everything works slick, however, the local machine (the one
connecting from the net) cannot print their work on their USB printer
apparently RD will not support USB printers. They had a driver still
installed from an old paralle printer and it shows on their desktop as a
printing option but the HP USP printer is not there. I tried to install the
driver on my machine but since it is USB the install will not complete unless
you plug in the printer to the USB port and it is 900 miles away. Anyone
have any suggestions on how to install a USB printer without having the
printer present? Or are USB printers supported in RD and I just screwed
something up?

 

[Sooner Al \(MVP\)]

Look at this KB article for possible help...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302361

Reboot after making the registry change...

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[Guest]

Al,

I already tried that, no luck. The printer is an HP Photosmart which has the
memory slots so it is being treated like a mutifuction machine and has a dot
port.

 

[Sooner Al \(MVP\)]

Hmmm... I have a HP7960 Photosmart printer, with the card reader integrated, attached via a USB port
on my wife's XP Home machine. When I used Remote Desktop to access my XP Pro machine over my home
LAN, I was able to open a Word document on the XP Pro Remote Desktop host and print to the local
HP7960 on my wife's XP Home Remote Desktop client machine... In the printer properties on my wife's
XP Home machine the printer shows up as a USB device, not a DOT device...

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[Guest]

When I do a remote on LAN I can print to my photosmart also but the printer
is shared on my network so its hard to tell if its doing it over the RC
session or just over the LAN. While I have your attention dumb question if I
have computer setup for both VPN and RC Host whould that make things go
wacko? The reason I ask is I have a remote computer (same one with the print
problem) and I have been evaluating RC vs VPN when I connect to the remote
computer over the VPN I can't browse the computer or even see the computer
but it connects just fine. Also I noticed when I am connected over the VPN
and check the connection status the IP address for the host and server is
different than the IP of my machine and the remote machine. I tried to ping
these addresses and got no response but when I ping the address of the remote
machine it pings fine.

 

[Guest]

Scratch that I can ping those IP's also possibly another symptom when I
connect the VPN I can't connect to the net anymore. I just know there is a
check box somewhere that needs to be checked/unchecked. That sledge hammer
in the garage is calling me.

 

[Sooner Al \(MVP\)]

This "Cable Guy" article will explain "Split Tunneling" with a VPN... Note that some network
administrators consider this a security issue/risk...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx

FWIW, my XP Pro desktop (my RD host and PPTP VPN server test machine) also has F&PS enabled. If I
get a chance later I will disable that and only use RD to connect to the PC and test again...
Unfortunately my test resources are rather limited so it may be awhile before I do that...

Having RD and VPN enabled should not really effect either one...

When you connect to the VPN server the server will assign (if configured for it) an IP to the VPN
client. That is how I have mine setup...so what your seeing is normal...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/WM2003/WM2003PPTPVPN.html

I wonder what would happen if you changed the Photosmart printer properties from DOT to USB?

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[Guest]

Hi,
I have the same problem.
The following solution work for me.

Simply rename the printer name.
Before was "HP Laserjet 1320", now I renamed to "P-AB" and work good.

Please tell me if it's work for you too.

Thank you

Daniele